{"id":3289,"date":"2011-09-03T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2011-09-03T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T13:30:15","slug":"playing-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/playing-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Playing Chess<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Answer <\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is severely disliked and a grave sin to play chess.\u00a0 The reason is that playing chess wastes a lot of time and distracts one from his or her religious and worldly obligations\u00a0 (Hidayah p.475 v.2)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Saaiduna Abu Musa Al-Ashari Radiallahu Anhu has said, \u201cOnly a sinner plays chess\u201d\u00a0 (Baihaqi in his Shuab al-Iman)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Only Allah Knows Best<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Playing Chess &nbsp; In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. &nbsp; Answer &nbsp; It is severely disliked and a grave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}